Bamberg University English Drama Group

Dozent/in:

N.N.

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mo, Do, 20:00 - 22:00, Online-Meeting
Einzeltermin am 4.11.2021, Einzeltermin am 22.11.2021, Einzeltermin am 10.1.2022, 20:00 - 22:00, U2/00.25

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module:

• Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Studium Generale (up to 2 ECTS)

Inhalt:

This semester, as is usual for winter semesters, we will not work on a full-length play for a full performance but instead focus on honing our skills not limited to acting only and work on a variety of smaller and medium projects. These include working on individual scenes, producing short videos for our YouTube channel and more encompassing projects such as picking up a previously planned adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer s Canterbury Tales, using both Middle English and Modern English (but don t worry, no previous knowledge of Middle English is needed). But that is not all: we can hint to further plans using pot plants and writing of our own, and a very special crime fiction project with a unique performance opportunity!
You do not need any prior knowledge of acting to participate, and you do not need to be a student of English everyone is welcome to join. If you are interested in drama, but prefer not to act, we will find a spot for you in our backstage team, which will be centred on video recording and editing as well as social media and advertising this semester, although there will also be some costume, hair and makeup design, and, as hinted, writing to do. Feel free to simply drop by in the first session!

The class will mostly consist of online sessions via Microsoft Teams, but we are planning to have in person sessions for acting exercises, rehearsals, and filming as well. If the situation allows us, those will happen once a week or once every other week, and you will be notified of this in advance. It is no problem if you can only make one of the weekly dates. If you would like to participate in the Drama Group, please write an email to buedg.englit@uni-bamberg.de for further information. We will then add you to our team on MS Teams and look forward to meeting you in the first week of the semester!
Directors: Amelie Biersack, Alicia Drefs, and Alice Limmer (pending)

Just Write

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung, This course is an extracurricular course and does not offer any ECTS credits.

Termine:

Zeit/Ort n.V.

Inhalt:

Just Write! is a literary magazine publishing fiction, non-fiction, and poetry with a focus on writers who produce creative texts in English. Not only is Just Write! a publication, but it also acts as a platform where the University of Bamberg’s students with creative minds can come together and share their works with fellow students.

Interested to know more, then get in touch by simply writing an email to justwrite.bamberg(at)gmail.com

Nachholtermine EngLit

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Christoph Houswitschka, Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein, Susan Brähler, Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Seminar

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

Shakespeare Reading Group

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

In the winter semester 2021/22, the Shakespeare Reading Group will be conducted via MS Teams. Please contact the lecturer to get access to the team.
This course is an extracurricular course and does not offer any ECTS credits. Anybody interested in reading and discussing Shakespeare is very welcome, regardless of their course of studies.

Inhalt:

William Shakespeare's works are well known, or should be well known, to all students of English literature. However, when reading Shakespeare some people struggle to fully appreciate his language or his brilliantly designed characters.
This course aims at all of those students who would like to enjoy Shakespeare's works together with other students. Thus, we will not only read two pieces by Shakespeare per semester, we will also provide a platform for discussion or even stage a few scenes to further our understanding of what is going on (corona providing). If you want to join us, you need not have any previous knowledge, only bring a copy of the play and sign up via e-mail to the lecturer to get access to Teams.
For more information on the Shakespeare Reading Group, please also see here: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/extracurriculare-aktivitaeten/shakespeare-reading-group/

Empfohlene Literatur:

William Shakespeare. Julius Caesar.
William Shakespeare. Henry VI, part I.

Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS

Termine:

Di, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Open for Master students in English and American Studies with Bamberg as their home university including the Joint Programme (including visiting students within the Joint Programme).
This tutorial is coordinated through the VC course "Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies", see link above (klick on "Online").

Tutorium zu Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A)

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium

Termine:

Mo, 12:15 - 13:45, Raum n.V.
ab 25.10.2021

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

This tutorial is based on Introduction to English and American Studies A taught by Kerstin-Anja Münderlein.
To take this course, students need not sign up separately via FlexNow!.

Inhalt:

WCIHTIG: Wie die Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A) wird auch das dazugehörige Tutorium im Wintersemester 2021/22 via Microsoft Teams unterrichtet. Das Tutorium beginnt erst in der zweiten Semesterwoche und wird im MS Teams-Kanal der Introduction (A) unterrichtet. Die Zugangsdaten zum VC-Kurs des Tutoriums werden im VC-Kurs der Introduction (A) veröffentlicht.
IMPORTANT: Like the course Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A) this course will be taught via Microsoft Teams in the winter semester 2021/22. The tutorial starts in the second week of term and will be taught via the MS Teams channel for Introduction (A). The access information for the VC course for this tutorial will be published on the VC course for Introduction (A).

This optional tutorial accompanies the seminar Introduction to English and American Studies (A) and it focuses on practical training in using the terminology discussed in the seminar. Students will be given the opportunity to practice writing mock-exam essays. Overall, the tutorial provides the practice to the Introduction's theory and we highly recommend students take both courses to adequately prepare for the exam, their future studies in literary studies and (eventually) their state exams.

Empfohlene Literatur:

In addition to the course book by Michael Meyer and the primary texts read in the "Introduction" class, this course will work with material published on the Virtual Campus.

Tutorium "Introduction to Literary Studies" (Course B)

Dozent/in:

Leonard Bürger

Angaben:

Tutorien, 2 SWS

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, Raum n.V.

Inhalt:

In the course of the semester, we will focus on the basics of prose, drama and poetry analysis. This tutorial further provides room for discussion, practice and exam preparation. Students are expected to show active participation, and to be able to apply the contents of the tutorial in the follow-up sessions with Dr. Nicole K. Konopka.

Please note that the first tutorial will take place AFTER the first regular session with Dr. Konopka!

Empfohlene Literatur:

All readings will be provided via the VC!

Bangladeshi Writing in English

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

Mi, 12:00 - 14:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

“Bangladeshi Writing in English” refers to a corpus of work of writers from Bangladesh and Bangladeshi diaspora who write in English but whose mother tongue is Bengali. This new corpus of writing, in recent times, has gained a renewed attention because of the significant success of writers of the Bangladeshi diaspora. Writers like Adib Khan (Australian-Bangladeshi) or that of Monica Ali (British-Bangladeshi) have come out as inspiration for many more to come in the scene of “Bangladeshi Writing in English.” However, one can trace the history of this particular corpus of writing back to the mid-19th century in then British India. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Rajmohan’s Wife (1864) or Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s feminist utopia Sultana’s Dream (1905) are only a few examples of early Bengali (now Bangladesh) writing in English.

This class will do a historical survey of “Bangladeshi Writing in English” from the mid-19th century until today. A specific focus will be given to the most recent trends of writers between the early and late 2000s from both Bangladesh and Bangladeshi diasporas. It will examine the literary dynamics of the “Bangladeshi Writing in English” as manifested in selective poems, novels and short stories, in conversation with themes of identity, sexuality, nation-building, exile and migration. The course also touches on critical issues relevant to the birth of a new nation called Bangladesh at the backdrop of the 1952 language movement.

Students will be provided with a list of texts from which they have to choose which texts they would like to discuss during the semester in the first class. However, there will be 2-3 set texts that will be announced on the same day that students should get hold of as soon as possible. As we will talk about a new text at least every other week, students should be prepared to do a considerable amount of reading during the term.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Suggested Reading:

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Sultana’s Dream (1905)

Rabindranath Tagore, selected poems from Song Offerings (1913)

Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003)

Rekha Waheed, The A-Z Guide to Arranged Marriage (2005)

Tahmima Anam, The Bones of Grace (2016)

Farah Guaznavi. Ed. Lifelines: New writings from Bangladesh (2019)

A more detailed syllabus will be announced in the first session of the class.

Crime Fiction, Femininities and Masculinities II: From 1900 to 1960

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer

Inhalt:

Crime Fiction reaches large numbers of readers with heterogeneous interests. In other words, it provides something for everyone, yet in doing so it can either assert or scrutinise and thus re-negotiate gender and sexual normativity. As such, the genre itself is both assertive of perceived normativity and at the same time deviant from socially constructed roles and rules. A crime of any kind, after all, already provides a disruption of order and sets extraordinary events in motion. The exceptional situation a crime creates thus leaves room for all kinds of agents (for queerness or normativity) to revise order and normativity. Crime, sex and gender are intricately linked, be that through the characters, the target audience, or the crime itself. Probably no other genre provides such a broad spectrum of characters, ranging from the occasionally hyper-masculine hardboiled detective and the stereotypically feminine spinster sleuth to androgynous private eyes or gender-fluid police detectives.
Moreover, a scholarly focus on gender and sex in Crime Fiction “has […] advanced understanding of the socially constructed nature of crime” (2) as Bill McCarthy and Rosemary Gartner write in the Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex and Crime (2014). Crime as a social construct inhabits a liminal position. Like gender, it crosses boundaries and is thus positioned on a perpetual threshold between what is read as “order” or “normality” and “chaos” or “deviance.” Crime Fiction provides the space to investigate this liminality and to open up stereotypical concepts of normativity in crime, gender and sexuality. Crime Fiction’s relationship with sex and gender is thus fascinatingly complex and allows for a broad variety of critical angles on the topic.

This course is the second of a three-part “Übung” on crime fiction and gender. It specifically covers the beginnings of 20th-Century British crime fiction with a focus on the Golden Age of Crime Fiction and ends with the spy novel and the time of James Bond. Please see below for the literature used in class (more literature to be announced and uploaded to the VC at the beginning of the semester). Students should be aware that this is a very reading- and discussion-intensive class and students should be prepared to participate in the in-class discussions.

Part III (summer semester 2022) will then conclude this series of Übungen with gender and modern crime fiction from the 1960s to today.

This course also serves as a preparation for the international conference “Captivating Criminality 8: Crime Fiction, Femininities and Masculinities” (30 June to 2 July 2022). Students in this course will have the chance to participate in a poster exhibition on the topic of the conference, but are not required to.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading (in reading order throughout the semester):
Arthur Conan Doyle. "The Adventure of the Empty House." 1903 (short story)
G.K. Chesterton. "The Invisible Man." 1911 (short story)
Marie Bellow Lowndes. The Lodger. 1913 (novel)
Agatha Christie. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. 1926 (novel)
Gladys Mitchell. Speedy Death. 1929 (novel)
Dorothy L. Sayers. Strong Poison. 1930 (novel)
Dashiell Hammett. The Maltese Falcon. 1930 (novel)
Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep. 1939 (novel)
Ian Fleming. From Russia with Love. 1957 (novel)

Integration and Assimilation: Clash of Cultures and Identity Crisis in The Namesake and Native Speaker

Dozent/in:

Mahbub Alam

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

Mi, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer

Inhalt:

Policies to integrate migrants in host society have significant impact on the psychological wellbeing of migrants. When integration strategies of immigrants and acculturation expectations of host societies do not correspond, the integration policies fail with negative outcomes. A culturally balanced society needs commitment and efforts form the migrants to integrate in host society. In parallel, the host society must set realistic expectations and be tolerant towards change in order to create decent intercultural relations. To understand the intercultural relations in The Namesakeand Native Speaker we will discuss and apply various hypotheses like the multiculturalism hypothesis, the integration hypothesis, and the contact hypothesis throughout this course.

In this course we will critically discuss theories related to migration and apply them to the stories and characters of the primary texts. We will explore how integration is distinct from assimilation. We will also review the distinctions between multiculturalism and interculturalism and how cultural clash leads to identity crisis.

It is highly recommended that the participants read the novels and refresh their knowledge of the literary terms before the start of the course.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake. Fourth Estate, 2019.

Lee, Chang-rae. Native Speaker. Penguin Books, 2013.

Introduction to Romanticism

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Romanticism is perhaps one of the most recognisable intellectual, artistic and literary movements in late 18th-century Europe. In the case of Britain, the movement certainly left a mark on the literature of the time. From England to Scotland and Wales, romanticism could be seen in poetry, novels and plays. The aims of this course is to provide an overview of the movement by characterising and contextualising it as well as by analysing key romantic texts. In order to do so, the course will first put Romanticism into context, that is to say, we shall study Romanticism in relation to its social and historical context, as well as analyse it taking into account the dialogue it establishes with other movements of the time, for instance the Gothic, Realism and the Age of Enlightenment. We shall have a panoramic view into the “origins” and development of Romanticism, from both an artistic and literary stand point as well as a philosophical one. The second and larger part of this course will provide an in-depth analysis of Romantic poetry, for instance with poems by Wordsworth, Burns and Shelley, and later novels by Scott, Austen and other authors.

Empfohlene Literatur:

To read DURING the semester

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.

Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights.

Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.

Key Texts in Literary Theory

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale

Termine:

jede 2. Woche Mi, 20:00 - 22:00, U9/01.11
ab 3.11.2021

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien der Englischen und Amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft (alle Haupt- und Nebenfächer) (1 ECTS)

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien (1 ECTS, ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2012 unbenotet)

• alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)

NOT open for Consolidation Module

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In this class we will study trends and schools in literary theory since the 1950s. We may discuss key texts by thinkers identified with formalism and structuralism, deconstruction and poststructuralism, gender studies and queer theory, psychoanalytical criticism, (Neo)Marxism and Cultural Materialism, New Historicism, postcolonial criticism and reader-response theory.
Depending on the participants personal interests, we may also consider more recent approaches like ecocriticism and possible-worlds theory or less "canonized" theories (e.g. systems theory).

The course is intended to assist students in both finding own approaches towards primary texts and in identifying mind-sets and methods applied in the secondary sources they read in their other seminars: "What theory demonstrates [...] is that there is no position free of theory, not even the one called common sense" (V. B. Leitch).

Empfohlene Literatur:

A course reader will be made available for download at our VC group once the schedule has been agreed upon.

Key Texts in Literary Theory

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Übung, 1 SWS, ECTS: 1, Studium Generale

Termine:

jede 2. Woche Mi, 20:00 - 22:00, U9/01.11
ab 3.11.2021

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum WS 14/15): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien der Englischen und Amerikanischen Literaturwissenschaft (alle Haupt- und Nebenfächer) (1 ECTS)

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Methoden und Theorien (1 ECTS, ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2012 unbenotet)

• alle alten Studiengänge: Übung (1 ECTS)

NOT open for Consolidation Module

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In this class we will study trends and schools in literary theory since the 1950s. We may discuss key texts by thinkers identified with formalism and structuralism, deconstruction and poststructuralism, gender studies and queer theory, psychoanalytical criticism, (Neo)Marxism and Cultural Materialism, New Historicism, postcolonial criticism and reader-response theory.
Depending on the participants personal interests, we may also consider more recent approaches like ecocriticism and possible-worlds theory or less "canonized" theories (e.g. systems theory).

The course is intended to assist students in both finding own approaches towards primary texts and in identifying mind-sets and methods applied in the secondary sources they read in their other seminars: "What theory demonstrates [...] is that there is no position free of theory, not even the one called common sense" (V. B. Leitch).

Empfohlene Literatur:

A course reader will be made available for download at our VC group once the schedule has been agreed upon.

Preparatory Course for Bavarian State Exam (English Literature)

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2, Studium Generale

Termine:

Do, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module allocation
all modules including an exam preparation (Examensübung/ Übung für Examenskandidaten) in literature (Focus on English literature)

Übung in "Vertiefungsmodul" or "Master Module" in any of the following courses of study

LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

MA English and American Studies

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. FlexNow (de-) registration: 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59

Inhalt:

This course is designed specifically for students of all "Lehrämter" (students in teachers training) who prepare for the written "Staatsexamen" (state exams) in English Literature according to the new LPO. However, students preparing other - oral or written - final exams are very welcome, too.

Students will first revise basic terminology for the analysis of poems, narrative and dramatic texts and receive an overview of literary history. After that, each session will be dedicated to one set of "Staatsexamen" questions from previous years. The course will cover all of the "Körbe" used in Staatsexamen (englische Literatur) (e.g. "Thema 1: Dramatische Texte der Renaissance," "Thema 6: Narrative und expositorische Texte des 19. Jahrhunderts" etc.). After the revision sessions, each session will be divided into a revision of the literary history of the respective "Korb" and a detailed analysis of one state exam question from this "Korb". All participants need to prepare a presentation based on these questions and the literary and historical background for each of them.

Supervision tutorial for BA theses in English Literature

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

Di, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

(De)Registration via FlexNow: 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59

Inhalt:

This supervision tutorial is specifically designed to prepare students for their Bachelor's thesis in English Literature. The course covers legal requirements (registering the thesis), formal aspects (style sheet, etc.), discusses structural aspects and requirements of a final paper, and gives students the opportuntiy to discuss their individual papers with a lecturer and fellow students.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Dozent/in:

Beatrix Hesse

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Kultur und Bildung, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional lecture (2 or 4 ECTS) in literature in
Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik incl. Studium Generale
MA English and American Studies
MA Berufliche Bildung
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

Open for Consolidation Module Literature (Vorlesung)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Lehramststudiengänge RS/Gym: Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul A (2 oder 4 ECTS)
M. Ed. Berufliche Bildung: Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul B (3 ECTS)
Anmeldung zur Teilnahme im Rahmen von „Kulturelle Bildung. Grundlagenmodul A/B“ per E-Mail bis 06. Oktober 2021 an kerstin-anja.muenderlein(at)uni-bamberg.de

Inhalt:

tba

Empfohlene Literatur:

tba

American Dystopia: From Classical to Feminist and Young Adult Dystopian Literature

Dozent/in:

Yildiz Asar

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Di, 14:00 - 16:00, Raum n.V.
Einzeltermin am 22.11.2021, 19:00 - 21:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an obligatory or optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
• MA English and American Studies
• MA WiPäd
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (and equivalents in other subjects)
• Studium Generale (not BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!)

>> NOT open for Consolidation Module!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation (individual tasks and group work)

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: September 1st November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st February 1st, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact Dr. Konopka via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt:

Dystopian accounts of non-existent places worse than the ones we live in are more popular today than ever before. But why? According to Tom Moylan in Scraps of the Untainted Sky, dystopian narrative is largely the product of the terrors of the twentieth century. A hundred years of exploitation, repression, state violence, war, genocide, disease, famine, ecocide provided more than enough fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian imagination (xi). In this course, we will inspect the dystopian turn in contemporary American literature. We will examine dystopia s form, central themes and subject-matters and its relation to the prevailing and shifting cultural discourses. Indeed, with the terrifying worlds that it portrays, dystopia can voice our worst contemporary fears and anxieties, cast a critical eye on the pressing global issues, warn and frighten, and also fill us with hope for a change, or perhaps a better future.

Starting from the post-WW2 era, we will first examine the rise of the Classical Dystopia (which British titles like Orwell s 1984 and Huxley s Brave New World came to embody) through Ray Bradbury s Fahrenheit 451 (1953), followed by the Feminist Critical Dystopia, focusing on Margaret Atwood s The Handmaid s Tale (1985) and Octavia Butler s Parable of the Sower (1993), and end with today s popular Young Adult Dystopia, with Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games (2008) as a key example.

In our readings, we will particularly pay attention to how gender, race, age, class and environmental issues are depicted in these texts. By the end of the semester, we will hopefully have a good grasp of the reasons behind dystopia s ever-increasing appeal for older and younger audiences and its relevance for our contemporary times.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Primary Readings:

• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid s Tale
• Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
• Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Only the first novel, but I would highly recommend the entire trilogy if you have the time!)

Throughout this course, we will also briefly refer to several other titles and critical texts which are to be announced.

American Literature of the 19th Century

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

Vorlesung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Di, 10:00 - 12:00, Raum n.V.
Class starts in the second week of term!

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an obligatory or optional lecture (Vorlesung) for 2 or 4 ECTS in literary studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (and equivalents in other subjects)
• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
• MA English and American Studies
• MA Berufliche Bildung
• MA WiPäd
• Studium Generale (not BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!)

>> Open for Consolidation Module literary studies (LECTURE)!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation
• only Consolidation module: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/)
• only Studium Generale: written test on pass/fail basis (options: 2 ECTS=45 minutes; 4 ECTS= 90 minutes)
• only Erasmus/exchange students: graded written test (options: 2 ECTS=45 minutes; 4 ECTS= 90 minutes)

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: September 1st – November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st – February 1st, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt:

This is a survey lecture aiming to introduce or help review major American developments, socio-cultural themes and literary genres, as well as a diverse choir of American literary voices of the "long 19th century."

Selected literary texts (to be found on VC) will be discussed together – seminar-like! – in class.

Empfohlene Literatur:

All readings will be provided via the VC.

Forschungsseminar und Betreuungsübung BA/MA/LA (Amerikanistik)

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 2

Termine:

jede 2. Woche Di, 16:00 - 18:00, OK8/02.04
Class starts in the second week of term!

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All degrees including a research seminar (Betreuungsübung) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Betreuungsübung 2 ECTS)
• BA Medieval Studies (Intensivierungsmodul 5 ECTS, wenn die BA-Arbeit in Amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft oder Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird)
• Lehramt GY (Betreuungsübung begleitend zur Zulassungsarbeit)
• MA English and American Studies (Betreuungsübung 2 ECTS)
• MA Medieval Studies (Intensivierungsmodul 5 ECTS, wenn die MA-Arbeit in Amerikanischer Literaturwissenschaft oder Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird)
• alle alten Studiengänge (Betreuungsübung begleitend zur Magisterarbeit)

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of advanced module (Aufbaumodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• only M.A. supervision: thesis defense (30 minutes)

Please contact the instructor beforehand to discuss your general idea and the possibility of thesis supervision!

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: September 1st – November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st – February 1st, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt:

This course is designed for students who are preparing or working on a final thesis in American literature or culture, be it a "Magisterarbeit," "Zulassungsarbeit," "BA-Arbeit" or Master’s thesis. It offers continuous support during the process of preparing or writing the thesis, and provides an opportunity to share parts of it with other students. The course consists of plenary and individual sessions; the syllabus and readings will be available on the Virtual Campus.

In the plenary sessions, we will discuss general criteria and formal aspects of a thesis – such as possible topics and research questions, theoretical approaches, and structural issues. Participants will present (parts of) their thesis for discussion and feedback. The individual sessions consist of one-to-one tutorials in which you will discuss the argument and structure of your thesis with me. For students who write their thesis in literary or cultural studies in the BA, MA and new teacher training programs, this course provides the "Betreuungsübung."

Please contact PD Dr. Zehelein well in advance to discuss your topic and the requirements for the supervision.

Empfohlene Literatur:

All readings will be provided via the VC!

From Know-It-All to Clearly Clueless: Exploring the Narrator in US-American and Canadian Fiction

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, U2/01.33
Class starts in the second week of term!

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an obligatory or optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literary studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
• MA English and American Studies
• MA WiPäd
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (and equivalents in other subjects)
• Studium Generale (not BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!)

>> OPEN for Consolidation Module literary studies! (ÜBUNG)

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• only Consolidation module: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/)

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: September 1st – November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st – February 1st, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt:

No one likes a know-it-all – except perhaps when reading a story. Narrators often seem to know everything and share it with their eager audience – or do they? In this class will study models that describe the various options of how to tell a story, in order to understand how meaning is created and communicated.

We will discuss key texts on narrative typologies by Roland Barthes, Franz Karl Stanzel, Gérard Genetté, Mieke Bal, and Monika Fludernik, to understand the underlying models and principles those scholars observed and developed. We will also explore how narrative communication actually works in a wide variety of literary examples, most of which will be selected from the reading list of the American Studies department (https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/leseliste/) and with reference to the "Staatsexamen" in Literary Studies.

The goal of this class is to develop a firm understanding of various models of narrative communication, while gaining a comprehensive insight into the development of North American literature and its socio-political and historical context.

Empfohlene Literatur:

While all shorter readings (essays, short stories, single chapters) will be provided via the VC (registered participants will be signed up for the VC course by the instructor in the first week of the semester!), the following novels will have to be purchased by each student in advance:

• Toni Morrison, A Mercy (2008)
• James Hannaham, Delicious Foods (2018)

Make sure to read the novels before the first session of this class!

In addition, the following textbook is strongly recommended as companion reading to this class: Monika Fludernik, An Introduction to Narratology (2009).

How to Write a Term Paper (inkl. Betreuungsübung BA Amerikanistik)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4

Termine:

Mo, 14:00 - 16:00, U5/01.22
Class starts in the second week of term!

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

How to Write a Term Paper in literary or cultural studies

• B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Übung 2 ECTS im Basismodul oder Aufbaumodul)
• Lehramtsstudiengänge Englisch: (Übung 2 ECTS im Basismodul oder Aufbaumodul)
• Studium Generale (not BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!)

Thesis supervision in literary or cultural studies

• B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (nur HF mit B.A.-Arbeit) (Betreuungsübung 2 ECTS)
• B.A. Medieval Studies: (Intensivierungsmodul 2 ECTS, wenn die B.A.-Arbeit in Kulturwissenschaft geschrieben wird)

Please contact the instructor beforehand to discuss your general idea and the possibility of thesis supervision!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of advanced module (Aufbaumodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• Only Studium Generale, exchange students, and B.A. candidates: final presentation in English

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: September 1st – November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st – February 1st, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt:

This course aims to assist students in writing their FIRST term paper in literary or cultural studies in Bamberg. We will discuss general formal aspects and content related criteria of an academic paper, such as possible topics, structure, suitable theoretical approaches. Primarily, however, we will practice how to choose a topic, how to develop a coherent structure, how to involve theoretical frameworks, and how to adhere to the MLA citation rules. Finally, we will discuss the different types of source material that are suitable for the list of references of your paper. Students have the chance to present a provisional outline in a closed discussion forum, where they will receive feedback from fellow students and the instructor.

This course is also addressed at students who are writing their BA-thesis with Dr. Konopka (American Studies). Therefore, this course provides the guidance sessions for the BA thesis (Betreuungsübung) for students in the BA programs who write their thesis in literary or cultural studies. It assists students in the preparation of their final paper, and gives them an opportunity to discuss their work with other students. BA-candidates will present parts of their final paper, offering it for discussion and feedback. If you are planning to attend this class, make sure that the instructor will also be your thesis advisor. Please contact Dr. Konopka well in advance to discuss your topic and the requirements for the supervision.

Please note that this is a practical training course and not a lecture! Everyone is expected to participate in the tasks and discussions.

Empfohlene Literatur:

All readings will be provided via the VC!

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (A)

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Modulstudium, Frühstudium

Termine:

Mo, 14:15 - 15:45, Raum n.V.
Students will be added to Teams and the VC manually during the first week of term
ab 25.10.2021

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

WICHTIG: Dieser Kurs wird auch im Wintersemester 2021/22 online via MS Teams unterrichtet. TeilnehmerInnen werden in der ersten Semesterwoche manuell sowohl dem Team auf MS Teams als auch dem zum Kurs gehörigen VC-Kurs zugefügt. Wenn Sie sich später zum Kurs melden, müssen Sie sich selbstständig bei der Dozentin melden!

IMPORTANT: This course will be taught via Microsoft Teams in the winter semester 2021/22. All participants will be added to the team on MS Teams and the VC course for this class during the first week or term. If you register later than that, it is your responsibility to contact the lecturer!

1. Module Allocation:

Basismodul (seminar: 2 or 6 ECTS) in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

• BA Berufliche Bildung

• BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies

• BSc. BWL

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 12.10.2021 (10:00) - 31.10.2021 (23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

WICHTIG Es stehen zwei Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Termin A finden Sie in FlexNow! bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, Termin B bei der Amerikanistik. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich frühzeitig für EINEN Termin! Studierende, die sich gleichzeitig für mehrere Seminare "Introduction to English and American Literature" anmelden, werden nach Maßgabe der Kurskapazitäten einem Kurs zugeteilt.

3. Tutorials:

Das Seminar "Introduction to English and American Literary Studies" wird durch folgende Tutorien ergänzt:

a) Begleitendes Tutorium zur "Introduction to English and American Literary Studies A" zur Vertiefung und Ergänzung der im Kurs besprochenen Themen; eine zusätzliche Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig. Dieses Tutorium wird von derselben Dozentin unterrichtet wie die Introduction selbst.
b) Basiskurs Bibliothek, bestehend aus eine E-learning Modul und einer Übung (90 Minuten); Anmeldung über den Virtuellen Campus der Universitätsibliothek.

Inhalt:

This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American Literature. We will discuss key features of the main literary genres poetry, prose fiction and drama, explore selected approaches in literary theory and criticism as a basis for analyzing and interpreting literary texts, and survey the main periods and developments of predominantly English literary history.

Please note that all Introductions to English and American Literary Studies prepare students for the analysis and interpretation of both English and American literature. The only difference is that the Introductions taught by members of the English Literature section use literary examples from a primarily British context, and those taught by members of the American Studies section use primarily American examples. Choosing one or the other Introduction does not mean that you specialize in English or American literature, and you don t have to take your later courses in the same area.

The following applies only to students whose Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft contains both the Introduction to Literary Studies and a lecture:
As of now, the final written exam of this Introduction to Literary Studies is also the module exam for the Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft. The exam will contain questions about both the content of the Introduction and the lecture (free choice: English or American Literature lecture). Students, therefore, are advised to take the introductory class either after attending the lecture OR in the same semester.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. Tübingen: Francke, 2011. (4th edition!)

Introduction to English and American Literary Studies (Course B)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All degrees requiring an introductory seminar for their basic module in literary studies (Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft):

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)
• BA Berufliche Bildung (seminar 6 ECTS)
• BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies (seminar 2 ECTS)
• BSc. BWL (seminar 6 ECTS)
• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)
• MA WiPäd (seminar 6 ECTS)

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• 6 ECTS: active participation in the seminar, course tutorial, library tutorial, final written exam
• 8 ECTS (module exam): active participation in the seminar, course tutorial, library tutorial, final written exam (see additional information below!)

The following applies ONLY to students whose Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft contains BOTH the Introduction to Literary Studies and a lecture (see module handbook):

As of now, the final written exam of this Introduction to Literary Studies is also the module exam for the Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft. The exam will contain questions about both the content of the Introduction and the lecture (free choice: English or American Literature lecture). Students, therefore, are advised to take the introductory class either after attending the lecture OR in the same semester.

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: October 12 – November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st – February 1st, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/
WICHTIG: Es stehen diverse Parallelkurse zur Verfügung. Den Termin A finden Sie in Flexnow bei der Englischen Literaturwissenschaft, den Termin B bei der Amerikanistik. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich frühzeitig für EINEN Termin!

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt:

This course provides a concise introduction to major themes and methods in the study of English and American literature with a focus on American literature.

We will discuss key features of the main literary genres poetry, prose fiction, and drama, explore selected approaches in literary theory and criticism as a basis for analyzing and interpreting literary texts, and survey the main periods and developments of American literary history. The focus, however, will be on the discussion of textual examples from these various vantage points. The goal of this course is to enable you to articulate up-to-date readings of texts from different genres, in their cultural contexts, informed by key theories and analytical methods.

Please note that all Introductions to English and American Literary Studies prepare students for the analysis and interpretation of both English and American literature. The only difference is that the Introduction taught by members of the English Literature section uses literary examples from a primarily British context, and the one taught by members of the American Studies section uses primarily American examples. Choosing one or the other Introduction does not mean that you "specialize" in English or American literature, and you don't have to take your later courses in the same area.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Required Reading:

Michael Meyer. English and American Literature. 4th ed. UTB Basic. Tübingen: Francke, 2010. (or a newer edition; Ebook welcome!)

All other readings will be provided via the VC!

Exile and Creativity: Identity in Aleksandar Hemon

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In one of his seminal essays, “Exile and Creativity,” the Czech born Brazilian philosopher Vilem Flusser view the condition of exile as a challenge to creativity. In his hypothesis, Flusser has argued that “… exile is unliveable. One must transform the information whizzing around into meaningful messages, to make it liveable. One must ‘process’ the data. It is a question of survival: if one fails to transform the data, one is engulfed by the waves of exile. Data transformation is a synonym for creation.” Therefore, according to Flusser, to live up to the life of an exile, one has to be creative; and arguably, a dialogue between the experience of being exiled and finding one’s voice becomes possible. This finding a voice resulted in constructing a new (im-)migrant identity, which in retrospect problematises the foundational understanding of ‘Exile Writers.’ In a foundational sense, an exile writer holds a privileged status as in-betweens, as a mediator between two cultures, thus become an agent of interpretation, who constructs a binary between an alienating “here” and a romanticised “homeland.” However, many of the current writers with an exile background rejected this notion and accepted the status of an (im-)migrant. Writers like Salman Rushdie or Caryl Phillips, for example, have adopted the term “(im-)migrant” to describe their literary production and their personal experience of transculturation. This shift from an exile to (im-)migration does not emphasise a specific point of departure and a point of arrival; instead, it prioritises movement, rootlessness, and mixing cultures, races, and language. It creates a world that does not create a binary inhibition of “here” and “there.” Instead, it celebrates the displacement and its apparent effect on the (im-)migrant’s identity, which alter the self-perception and often result in ambivalence both to the old and new ‘self.’ This new (im-)migrant identity no longer ordinarily or even nostalgically remember the past as a fixed and comforting anchor to life, since its contours move with the present rather than in opposition to it. Therefore, an (im-)migrant’s identity is no longer to do with being but with becoming.

To understand all these matters of being in exile and its relation to creativity and creating a new (im-)migrant identity, non-other than Aleksandar Hemon is the most acutely fitting contemporary writer to read. Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-American writer who teaches creative writing at the University of Princeton currently. Lewis Centre for the Arts at the University of Princeton writes about him: “Born in Sarajevo, Hemon graduated from the University of Sarajevo with a degree in literature and visited Chicago in 1992 as a part of a journalism exchange program, intending to stay for just a few months. However, he could not return home because of the Bosnian War and graduated from Northwestern University with his master’s degree, simultaneously working a series of jobs while continuing to learn English. He wrote his first story in English in 1995.” Since then, Aleksandar Hemon has written seven books: two non-fiction, two short story collections, and three novels. He also has written a few screenplays, and the most recent one is the fourth Matrix movie in cooperation with the British writer David Mitchel. He also edited Best European Fiction between 2010 and 2013.

This seminar will read, analyse, and discuss Aleksandar Hemon’s writing in light of Vilem Flusser’s hypothesis on being an exile and creative and a new (im-)migrant identity. In particular, it will investigate the link between exile and creativity, immigrant experiences and literature, immigrant narrative and nostalgia. The discussion will focus on trans-cultural identities, reception and criticism of migrant identity, the complex experience of immigrant characters living in between two or more languages, societies and cultures.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Reading List:
The Question of Bruno (2000)
Nowhere Man (2002)
The Lazarus Project (2008)
Love and Obstacles (2009)
The Book of My Lives (2013)
The Making of Zombie Wars (2015)
My Parents: An Introduction (2019)

A more detailed syllabus will be announced in the first session of the class.

Introduction to Romanticism

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Romanticism is perhaps one of the most recognisable intellectual, artistic and literary movements in late 18th-century Europe. In the case of Britain, the movement certainly left a mark on the literature of the time. From England to Scotland and Wales, romanticism could be seen in poetry, novels and plays. The aims of this course is to provide an overview of the movement by characterising and contextualising it as well as by analysing key romantic texts. In order to do so, the course will first put Romanticism into context, that is to say, we shall study Romanticism in relation to its social and historical context, as well as analyse it taking into account the dialogue it establishes with other movements of the time, for instance the Gothic, Realism and the Age of Enlightenment. We shall have a panoramic view into the “origins” and development of Romanticism, from both an artistic and literary stand point as well as a philosophical one. The second and larger part of this course will provide an in-depth analysis of Romantic poetry, for instance with poems by Wordsworth, Burns and Shelley, and later novels by Scott, Austen and other authors.

Empfohlene Literatur:

To read DURING the semester

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.

Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights.

Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.

Narratives of Pain: Literary and Cultural Perspectives

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Do, 16:00 - 18:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/ Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature (NOT culture)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59 guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

What does the word pain resonate with? Is the word pain only relevant for medical science and treatment? How do people make sense of pain? How are bodily and psychological forms of pain intertwined? How do people express pain in words? Are pain and suffering inexplicable? What languages do we use in describing pain, how do we read or even inherit the pain and suffering of others? How does contemporary literature and culture represent the pain and suffering of others?

This seminar will draw attention to the study of pain and suffering from a multidisciplinary approach in dialogue with literature, culture, and media. We will begin the semester with an overview of the concept of pain from medical science and psychoanalytic studies perspectives to the most recent focus on representation and literary theoretical works on pain. Subsequently, we will discuss more recent developments in the study of pain, looking at the ways in which they are relevant for today’s worldview.

Each session will start with a short student presentation followed by discussions of significant texts. For the success of this class, it is paramount that all of the assigned texts be read and prepared carefully.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Reading List:
Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain (1985)
David B. Morris, The Culture of Pain (1991)
Susan Sonntag, Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)
David Biro, The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief (2010)
Martin Modlinger and Philipp Sonntag (Ed), Other People’s Pain: Narratives of Trauma and the Question of Ethics (2011)
Susannah B. Mintz, Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body (2013)
A more detailed syllabus will be announced in the first session of the class.

S: From Poetry to Song Lyrics: Analysing and Teaching Verse

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Theresa Summer, Lorena Bickert, Susan Brähler, Pascal Fischer, Manfred Krug, Mareike Spychala, Lina Strempel

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Kultur und Bildung, Please note: Students will also be asked to participate in some additional sessions (e.g. lectures).

Termine:

Mi, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/00.04
ab 3.11.2021

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Information für Studierende der Fachdidaktik Englisch:

1. Modules: (ECTS: 4)
Lehramt GS, MS, RS, GY: Vertiefungsmodul
Lehramt RS: Zusatzmodul
BEd Berufliche Bildung: Vertiefungsmodul
MEd Berufliche Bildung: Zusatzmodul
Bachelor BWL/Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Aufbaumodul-Bachelor
Master Wirtschaftspädagogik/Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Aufbaumodul-Master
Master Wirtschaftspädagogik/Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Vertiefungsmodul

2. Teilnahmevoraussetzungen:
abgeschlossenes englischdidaktisches Basismodul

3. Anmeldung:
über FlexNow
vom 27.09.2021, 12:00 Uhr bis 15.10.2021, 11:59 Uhr

4. Leistungsnachweis:
schriftliche Hausarbeit

Further information: Students will also be asked to participate in a symposium (Friday, 04/02/2022 - Saturday, 05/02/2022).

Information for students of English Linguistics:

1. Modules:
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

2. Registration and Deregistration:
Registration via FlexNow from 27 September 2021, 10:00h, to 21 October 2021, 23:59h.
Deregistration via FlexNow from 27 September 2021, 10:00h, to 30 October 2021, 23:59h.

3. Requirements for successful completion of the course:
8 ECTS: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + seminar paper of 4500-6000 words

4. Combination with "Methods and Theories in Linguistics":
In the early weeks of term, all students are expected to take part in a special introduction to research methods entitled "Methods and Theories in Linguistics": https://univis.uni-bamberg.de/form?dsc=anew/lecture_view&lvs=guk/angl/engls/method&anonymous=1&founds=guk/angl/engls/method&sem=2021w&codeset=utf8 (unless they have already participated in this course in an earlier semester). Thus, these participants are required to reserve the following times and dates: Friday, 29 October 2021, 8-10 am, Thursday, 11 November 2021, 8-10 am, and Friday, 12 November 2021, 8-11 am. To enable pre-planning, please register for the course in FlexNow and in the Virtual Campus course by 27 October at the latest: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/enrol/index.php?id=49429

Information for students of American Studies:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:
Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar 6 ECTS)

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
1. completion of the basic module (Basismodul)
2. active participation (individual tasks and group work)
3. term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)

3. FlexNow-Registration:
1. Course (de)enrollment: 01.09.2021 - 01.11.2021
2. ECTS (de)registration: 01.01.2022 - 01.02.2022

Information for students of English Literature:

1. Modules:
Lehramt GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

2. FlexNow - Registration:
Class Registration: 06.09.2021 bis 31.10.2021
Exam Registration: 10.01.2022 bis 06.02.2022
Term Paper Deadline: 27.03.2022

Information for students of English and American Cultural Studies:

1. Modules:
Vertiefungsmodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft Lehramt GY (8 ECTS)
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft Lehramt GY (5 ECTS)
Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft WIPÄD (6 ECTS)

2. Registration:
October 4 until October 22, 2021
via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft"

Inhalt:

Lyrical texts such as poems and songs are particularly suitable for illustrating the characteristics of literariness to students: different levels of communication, stylistic devices and aesthetic effects are distinct in this genre with its tendency towards condensation and structural rigour. At the same time, poems and songs can offer readers and listeners an engaging insight into a great variety of social, cultural, and environmental issues. For English language education, lyrical texts have several benefits and, primarily due to their brevity and density of subject matter, they provide opportunities for flexible use and the development of various competences as well as critical literacy. In this interdisciplinary seminar, we will explore lyrical texts ranging from traditional poems to popular songs from different academic perspectives. These include literary-cultural, linguistic, and educational as well as methodological perspectives to identify how verse can be analysed and integrated into English language education. In opening up the canon of lyrical texts and including popular and learner-centred texts such as rhymes, tongue twisters, and pop songs, English language education can encourage learners to discover specific features of lyrical texts, identify layers of meaning, and explore various transcultural perspectives as well as issues of social (in)justice relevant in our society today.

Monsters within and without: Policing the boundaries in fin-de-siècle British Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Robert Craig

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 23.07.2021 (10:00 Uhr) bis 22.10.2021 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 13.12.2021 (10:00 Uhr) bis 24.01.2022 (23:59 Uhr)

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, LU19/00.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft

B.A./LA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability

I. Literaturwissenschaft:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft

Please note that you can find this 'Literaturwissenschaft' seminar listed under the rubric of 'LS Britische Kultur' in FlexNow.

II. Kulturwissenschaft:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur (6 ECTS)
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Aufbaumodul; GYM Wahlpflichtmodul (Kombination mit Russisch) Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur (5 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 ECTS)

The Aufbaumodul will be examined by a term paper (3,000-4,000 words); the Ergänzungsmodul will be assessed by an oral examination. Further information on the examinations can be obtained from this address: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/studium/ .

Inhalt:

“[A]s unknown […] as the darkest reaches of Africa.” As a description of the backstreets of London, this quotation, from Arthur Machen’s 1895 horror novel The Three Imposters, is typical of tropes of ‘otherness’ routinely employed in late nineteenth-century British culture. As the Empire reached its high-water mark, and British society exulted in its own self-confidence, an anxiety at ‘the alien’ was growing in the shadows and at the margins. Even (or perhaps precisely) at the end of a century that had seen the unprecedented advance of science and technology, both the fear and the fascination around ghosts, monsters, and devils of all kinds was permeating literary and cultural production. A sense that secure borders were crumbling found a virulent focal point in a growing fear of the impact of mass immigration, especially from Eastern Europe.

The primary focus of this seminar will be British and Irish literature and culture of the fin de siècle. In particular, we shall consider how literary texts both figured and reflected insecurities and anxieties about human and social identity in relation to its many ‘others’. Beginning with a contextual introduction, which will present the scientific, philosophical, and medical backdrop to our texts, we shall develop our theoretical framework around Sigmund Freud’s essay ‘Das Unheimliche’ (1919). This will be followed by a selection of Gothic short stories, and novellas and novels that articulate alterity in its myriad forms. We will begin with Robert Louis Stevenson’s chilling ‘tales of terror’ ‘The Body Snatcher’ (1884), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and ‘Olalla’ (1896). Moving through Henry James’s brilliantly subtle and uncanny ghost stories, we will conclude the course with two of the fin de siècle’s greatest novels of aliens and monstrous Others: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine (1895).

Empfohlene Literatur:

I. Primärliteratur:

Please buy and read all the novels in the exact editions stated here. If you buy Kindle versions, or the like, you need to make sure that they include the exact (corresponding) page numbers.

Sigmund Freud, ‘Das Unheimliche’ (1919).

Henry James, ‘Sir Edmund Orme’, in James, The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories, repr. ed. (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2008). https://www.amazon.de/Screw-Stories-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199536171

Henry James, ‘Owen Wingrave’, in ibid.

Robert Louis Stevenson, ‘Olalla’, in Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror, repr. ed. (London: Penguin Classics, 2003). https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strange-Jekyll-Terror-Penguin-Classics/dp/0141439734

Robert Louis Stevenson, ‘The Body Snatcher’, in ibid.

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, in ibid.

Bram Stoker, Dracula (London: Penguin Classics, 2003). https://www.amazon.de/Dracula-Penguin-Classics-Bram-Stoker/dp/014143984X

H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (London: Penguin Classics, 2007). https://www.amazon.de/-/en/H-G-Wells-ebook/dp/B002RI96W6/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=H.+G.+Wells+the+Time+Machine+Penguin&qid=1634820460&qsid=262-3822564-1105617&sr=8-2&sres=0141199342%2C1659539153%2CB09J9YKB33%2C0241277493%2CB09JC8X8ZV%2CB013INN6M4%2CB09252T6FJ%2CB09HMCLKCL%2C0140817824%2CB09BMZ9PNS%2CB0986Z57G1%2CB09HH74ZJ4%2CB00GX32ULU%2CB07PN7FHCG%2C184749627X%2C177476119X&srpt=ABIS_BOOK

Freud’s essay, ‘Das Unheimliche’, along with other materials on ‘the uncanny’, will be made available on the VC.

II. Sekundärliteratur:

A list of useful secondary literature, together with a TB4 Semesterapparat, will be made available in the first few weeks of the semester.

Please note that you alone are responsible for knowing and keeping track of information made available to you in printed documents and on the Virtual Campus. Needless to say that your active and regular participation is expected. Absences will be excused when they result from circumstances beyond students’ control (illness, family emergency, religious holiday).

America on Stage: Diversity and Representation in American Drama and Musical Theater

Dozent/in:

Lorena Bickert

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Mi, 12:00 - 14:00, Raum n.V.
Einzeltermin am 6.12.2021, 18:00 - 21:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• BA Berufliche Bildung (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar 6 ECTS)

>> Open for Ergänzungsmodul literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the basic module (Basismodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Ergänzungsmodul: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/ergaenzungsmodul-ba/)

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: September 1st November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st February 1st, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt:

Well, women are used to worrying over trifles, (9) notes the condescending husband of a female sleuth in Susan Glaspell s 1916 play Trifles. In this seminar, our interest lies precisely in these alleged trifles, as we meet silly, shocking, and shooting women, [a] Gay Republican (Angels 29), or [a] bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists (Hamilton, My Shot ) on America s theater stages, and set out to examine representations of America on Stage that transcend the stereotype of the white heterosexual male protagonist.

Analyzing both US-American theater plays across the twentieth century and contemporary Broadway musicals, we will address questions of diversity in terms of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, illness, (dis)ability, human-animal relationships, and others, rethinking definitions of American national identity. Our readings include Susan Glaspell s Trifles (1916), Lillian Hellman s The Children s Hour (1934), Lorraine Hansberry s A Raisin in the Sun (1959), and Tony Kushner s Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches (1991), as well as excerpts from other renowned plays, and their movie adaptations. We will also analyze American musical theater from Rent (1994) to Hamilton (2016) from a perspective of diversity.

In our seminar, we will read these plays within relevant historical contexts of feminism, racial (in)equality, and LGBTQIA+ history, with a special interest in the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 90s. We will engage critically with these plays using insights from Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Critical Whiteness Studies, and Performance Studies, amongst others, in order to analyze the multifaceted US-American theatrical landscape from an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and multimedia standpoint.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please purchase and read the following plays before classes start in October:

• Susan Glaspell, Trifles (1916) (available online via the university library!)
• Lillian Hellman, The Children s Hour (1934)
• Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
• Tony Kushner, Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches (1991)

All other primary and secondary texts will be provided on the Virtual Campus.

In the Spotlight: A Survey of US-American Literary History (e-learning course)

Dozent/in:

Nicole K. Konopka

Angaben:

Proseminar, ECTS: 6, Dies ist ein reines Online-Seminar. Anmeldung erfolgt über die VHB!

Termine:

Der Kurs findet ausschließlich virtuell statt. Er steht über die virtuelle Hochschule Bayern Studierenden aller bayerischen Universitäten bzw. Hochschulen zur Verfügung.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar 6 ECTS)

>> NOT open for ‘Ergänzungsmodul’ literary studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the basic module literary studies (Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)

3. Registration:

• via Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern!
• Course (de)enrollment: October 1st – October 29, 2021 (via vhb website!)
• Exam (de)registration: January 11 – February 11, 2022 (via email to the instructor!)

Die Lehrveranstaltung ist dauerhaft als Online-Kurs konzipiert. Sie steht über die virtuelle Hochschule Bayern [https://www.vhb.org/startseite] Studierenden aller bayerischen Universitäten bzw. Hochschulen zur Verfügung.

Zur Kursdemo auf dem Virtuellen Campus: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/course/view.php?id=27003

Inhalt:

This seminar is an internet-based survey course that offers students in the “Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft” an overview of the main developments in US-American literary history. The class will help students to understand the links between literary periods, their central ideas, and important stylistic features. The course provides participants with detailed information about the complexities that underlie and connect each literary work and period. The course’s other main goal is to familiarize students with key texts and key discourses of US-American literature, such as race, class, and gender. The texts were chosen because they either represent crucial aspects of their respective literary periods, or because they address topics and concepts that were controversial at this particular point in history.

Despite being an E-Learning course, this is a discussion-based class, so active participation is crucial. Participants are required to contribute to class discussions by posting at least two quality responses per forum. Your learning process will be enabled through your active involvement in the different assignments, which are designed to allow you as much creative freedom as possible while assisting you in your reading and understanding of the poems, short stories, novels, and plays.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Most readings will be made available via the Learning Management System (VC/Moodle).
Two texts, however, need to be acquired by each participant individually:

• Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
• Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)

PS British Poetry: the Modernists

Dozent/in:

William Adamson

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Mo, 10:00 - 12:00, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

BA Berufliche Bildung:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GS/MS/RS/BS:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
active participation
presentation (30 minutes)
term paper in English, 3.000-4.000 words

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
October 4 until October 22, 2021

via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.

Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.

Inhalt:

Modernist poetry is characterised by a number of features including technical innovation, for example the increased use of free verse, a revolution in the use of language, and a distinctive moving away from the nineteenth century idea of an “unproblematic” voice and audience. This seminar will look specifically at the "British" modernists, including the poetry of James Joyce, T.S. Eliot (special emphasis), W.B. Yeats and the later modernists Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas. Close readings of the texts will be seen against the historical and cultural context of the times. A PDF file of the poems to be discussed will be provided at the beginning of the seminar.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Good introductory texts are The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry edited by Alex Davis and The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry by Peter Howarth

PS The Postcolonial Short Story

Dozent/in:

Pascal Fischer

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Mi, 8:00 - 10:00, U5/02.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

BA Berufliche Bildung:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GS/MS/RS/BS:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

Kulturelle Bildung (KulturPLUS):
Grundlagenmodul A, Lehramtsstudiengänge RS/Gym (4 ECTS, Prüfung)
Grundlagenmodul B, M. Ed. Berufliche Bildung (3 ECTS, Prüfung)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
active participation
presentation (30 minutes)
term paper in English, 3.000-4.000 words

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
October 4 until October 22, 2021

via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.

Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.

Inhalt:

This literary studies seminar, which is particularly, though not exclusively, directed at students in teachers training programmes, pursues two interrelated goals. First of all, it sets out to understand the short story as a literary genre in its own right by drawing on theoretical explanations. Secondly, it wants to review tendencies within postcolonial literature, a segment of English writing in which the short story has been disproportionately represented. The following are the guiding questions of the seminar: What is the experience of reading a (postcolonial) short story? Why has the short story been such a popular choice for the disempowered? Is this genre particularly suited for the representation of marginalized identities? What are the major themes of postcolonial short stories? What categories of postcolonial stories can we distinguish? What analytical tools are provided by postcolonial theory for understanding this kind of literature? Authors discussed in the seminar include James Matthews, Nadine Gordimer, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, and Chinua Achebe.

Most stories for the seminar will be provided on the Virtual Campus at the beginning of the semester.

Impossible Worlds, Unspeakable Sentences: Exploring Postclassical Narratologies

Dozent/in:

Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale, Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA Religionen verstehen / Religious Literacy: Schlüsseltexte in einer wissenschaftlichen Fremdsprache: Mastermodul / Reading English Academic Key Texts: Master Module (MA RelLit 3a): Seminar (5 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2021, 10:00 - 25.04.2021, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Why do readers empathise with fictional characters? To what effect do narratives break with real-world frames and feature dead or unborn narrators? How can a story be told by a dog? How can poems, movies, paintings, videogames or cartoons be accommodated into narratological models? And how is storytelling enmeshed with ideology? Do the gender, sexual and ethnic identities of a narrator make a difference? – These are only some of the questions that have been dealt with by postclassical narratologists over the past three decades.

Since its structuralist beginnings in the mid-1960s and a first ‘classical phase’ (– early 1980s), the field of narratology has seen methodological and thematic extensions as well as (more radical) revisions, contestations and diversifications, to the point when Ansgar Nünning – as early as 2003 – questioned the usefulness of keeping ‘narratology’ as an overarching term for the ever-proliferating number of ‘postclassical narratologies’. Ever since its first coinage in David Herman’s seminal study Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis (1999), the label ‘postclassical narratology’ has come to denominate a set of interdisciplinary, pragmatic, context- and reader-oriented narratologies which, in opposition to classical models striving to develop ‘universal’ categories, “consider the circumstances that make every act of reading different” (Herman/Vervaeck 2005).

After a revision of the classical narratologies of especially Tvetan Todorov, Franz Stanzel and Gérard Genette and Seymour Chatman, we will dedicate each session to the theory as well as methodology and application of a distinctive postclassical narratological approach. Students will be asked to read theoretical texts in preparation for each meeting as well as (excerpts from) fictional and non-fictional texts.

Among the postclassical narratologies we will cover are: transgeneric and transmedial narratology, rhetorical narratology, cognitive, natural and unnatural narratology, feminist, queer and postcolonial narratology, ideology and narrative, narratology beyond the human.

Please note: for students participating in this seminar, the online Master Class held by narratologist Prof. Dr. Jan Alber (RWTH Aachen) on 17 and 18 December is mandatory. Please check the following website for details: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/news-englische-literaturwissenschaft/artikel/master-class-with-prof-dr-jan-alber/

Empfohlene Literatur:

Weekly reading assignments of theoretical texts will be made available on the Virtual Campus. A list of primary texts will be published here soon.

Masterclass: Adopting Revolution

Dozent/in:

Judith Thompson

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 19.11.2021, 14:00 - 17:00, Raum n.V.
Einzeltermin am 20.11.2021, Einzeltermin am 21.11.2021, 14:00 - 21:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 15.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59 exchange students: please contact kerstin-anja.muenderlein@uni-bamberg.de

Inhalt:

This seminar plunges us into revolutionary romantic era through the work of its leading activist, “Citizen John” Thelwall, radical orator and writer, voice of the people, pioneer of free speech and a linchpin figure who unites literature and politics, “the worlds of Wordsworth and Coleridge, and the Spitalfields weavers” (E.P. Thompson).

We will enter this diverse and dynamic era through Thelwall’s 1801 novel The Daughter of Adoption. This witty, multitextured and accessible adventure captures ideas of its own time that remain compelling, even urgent, in ours, including human rights, feminism, capitalist imperialism, abolitionism and the Black Atlantic, education, colonial medicine, and the techniques and traditions of the “romance” novel (bildungsroman, gothic, sentimental, jacobin) that Thelwall adopts and adapts for political purposes. Students will explore these and other themes and contexts through individual presentations, to which the whole class (including the professor) will respond in animated online synchronous discussion.

The final paper growing out of your presentation offers an opportunity to do truly pioneering work in a relatively new and rapidly growing field. You will be expected to read what specific criticism there is on the novel, and Thelwall’s polymathic work, but also to insert Thelwall into the history of romantic studies from which he has been missing until recently, and to bring your own diverse perspectives and experiences to bear on the novel. Although your professor, Judith Thompson, is the world’s leading expert on Thelwall, and one of the editors of The Daughter of Adoption, she is still surprised and delighted by her students’ original insights; just last month, an MA student drew attention to something she had completely missed in multiple readings of the novel, and like Thelwall, she looks forward to hearing everyone’s voice.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:
John Thelwall. The Daughter of Adoption. A Tale of Modern Times. 1801. Edited by Michael Scrivener, Yasmin Solomonescu, Judith Thompson. Broadview Press, 2013.

The Interwar Period in British Literature

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

The interwar period denotes the time between the end of the Great War (1914-1918) and the beginning of the Second World War (1939-1945). During this time, (not only) Europe struggled with the effects of the war on civil society, international diplomacy, and national and individual fates. With national traumas and the loss of the “lost Generation”, a term coined by Gertrude Stein, on the one hand and the fundamental social changes in British class structures and gender roles on the other hand, the interwar period was one of the most suspenseful and varied times in modern history. From the “Roaring Twenties” and their celebration of the loss of old boundaries to the Great Depression and the rise of Fascism on the Continent in the thirties, the period provides a constant up and down and threw the people from one World War into the next.

From the perspective of literary studies, the interwar period proved to be highly fruitful. Besides the continuation of literary modernism, which had started around the beginning of the century and would deeply affect all forms of literature – narrative, poetry, and drama –, the interwar period boasts of an enormous diversification of genres and literary styles. This course aims at showcasing this literary diversity in all three Aristotelian genres (narrative, poetry, and drama) by exemplarily examining texts from such different perspectives as T.S. Eliot’s and Edith Sitwell’s modern poetry, Noel Coward’s comedies, Virginia Woolf’s and Katherine Mansfield’s short fiction, Agatha Christie’s Golden Age crime novels, Aldous Huxley’s dystopian fiction, or J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy. The focus of this course will be on narrative texts.

This course will begin by giving an overview of the interwar years before it moves into non-fiction and theoretical texts, poetry, drama and narrative (with a focus on the latter). Over the course of the semester, we will read and discuss the obligatory reading (see below) alongside theoretical texts, which will be made available on the VC. As this course will be discussion-intensive, participants are kindly asked to be visible on MS Teams even when not speaking to create a familiar and inviting atmosphere, which allows for higher-quality discussions.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading throughout the semester:
Poetry:
T.S. Eliot. “The Waste Land.” 1922.
Poems by Edith Sitwell, W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas and W.H. Auden
All poems will be made available on the VC

Drama:
Noel Coward. Hay Fever. 1924.

Narrative:
Katherine Mansfield. “The Garden-Party.” 1922. (short story; available via Project Gutenberg Australia and on the VC)
Virginia Woolf. “The Shooting Party.” 1938. (short story; available via Project Gutenberg Australia and on the VC)
William Somerset Maugham. The Painted Veil. 1925. (novel)
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. 1932. (novel)
J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit. 1937. (novel)
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. 1939. (novel)

‘Writing back?’ Legacies of Empire in Postwar Britain

Dozent/in:

Robert Craig

Angaben:

Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 23.07.2021 (10:00 Uhr) bis 22.10.2021 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 13.12.2021 (10:00 Uhr) bis 24.01.2022 (23:59 Uhr)

Termine:

Mo, 11:30 - 13:00, Raum n.V.

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation

B.A / LA GY Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
B.A / LA GY Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft

Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability

I. Literaturwissenschaft:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

Open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar); NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul.

Please note that you can find this 'Literaturwissenschaft' seminar listed under the rubric of 'LS Britische Kultur' in FlexNow.

II. Kulturwissenschaft:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS)
M.A. English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
M.A. Literatur und Medien: Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie, Erweiterung Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie
LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies
Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies

The Vertiefungsmodule and Mastermodule will be examined by a term paper (3,500-4,500 and 4,500-6,000 words respectively); the Consolidation Modules will be assessed by an oral examination. Further information on the examinations can be obtained from this address: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/studium/ .

Inhalt:

“My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost. I am often considered to be a funny kind of Englishman, a new breed as it were, having emerged from two old histories.” Thus begins Hanif Kureishi’s picaresque novel of identities lost and identities re-forged, The Buddha of Suburbia: a state-of-the-nation snapshot of 1970s Britain, certainly, but also a wry portrait of the myriad challenges of location and adaptation faced by first- and second-generation migrants in a ‘mother country’ that was by turns indifferent and hostile. In 2021, a tolerant and multicultural Britain may be a mixture of fantasy and reality – but even the ‘reality’, as we have recently seen, has surprisingly shallow historical roots.

One the basis of the theoretical framework supplied by Edward Said, Stuart Hall, and Homi K. Bhabha, we will be reading some of the finest literary work to have emerged from the problematic legacy of Empire. We start with Sam Selvon’s classic novel, The Lonely Londoners (1956), an exploration of the struggles of belonging and discrimination faced by the first generation of immigrants from the West Indies. Andrea Levy’s epic bestseller, Small Island (2004) intertwines multiple stories and perspectives in a tale of love, loss, new homes, and new identities. The Buddha of Suburbia traces out Karim’s attempts, as the mixed-race son of an Indian immigrant, to find his own path. Finally, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) crosses cultures, generations, and much else besides in a multi-stranded account of Britain’s complex attitude towards its Commonwealth.

Empfohlene Literatur:

I. Primärliteratur:

Please buy and read all the novels in the exact editions stated here. If you buy Kindle versions, or the like, you need to make sure that they include the exact (corresponding) page numbers.

Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 2004).

Stuart Hall, ‘Culture, Community, Nation’ (1993), and ‘Cultural Identity and Diaspora’ (1990).

Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (London: Faber & Faber, 1999).

Andrea Levy, Small Island (London: Tinder Press, 2004); John Alexander (dir.), Small Island (2015).

Edward Said, Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2003).

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2006).

Zadie Smith, White Teeth (London: Penguin, 2000).

Hall’s essays, as well as extracts from Bhabha and Said, will be made available on the VC.

II. Sekundärliteratur:

A list of useful secondary literature, together with a TB4 Semesterapparat, will be made available in the first few weeks of the semester.

Please note that you alone are responsible for knowing and keeping track of information made available to you in printed documents and on the Virtual Campus. Needless to say that your active and regular participation is expected. Absences will be excused when they result from circumstances beyond students’ control (illness, family emergency, religious holiday).

"Jump at de Sun": Women of the Harlem Renaissance

Dozent/in:

Christine Gerhardt

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 25.10.2021, Einzeltermin am 15.11.2021, Einzeltermin am 29.11.2021, Einzeltermin am 13.12.2021, Einzeltermin am 10.1.2022, Einzeltermin am 17.1.2022, Einzeltermin am 24.1.2022, Einzeltermin am 31.1.2022, Einzeltermin am 7.2.2022, 18:00 - 21:00, U5/00.24
Biweekly sessions: Oct 18, Oct 25, Nov 15, Nov 29, Dec 13, Jan 10, Jan 24, Feb 07 (flexible dates: Jan 17 + 31)

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Hauptseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• LA GY (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• MA English and American Studies (Seminar 4, 5, 6, or 8 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (Seminar 8 ECTS) (and equivalents in other subjects)
• Erasmus and other visiting students (Seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)

>> Open for Consolidation Module literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Consolidation module: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/)

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: September 1st November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st February 1st, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt:

The Harlem Renaissance marks one of the most significant moments in the history of American literature: Between the end of World War I and the Great Depression of the 1930s, writers in this movement connected with the African American cultural tradition and participated in creating American modernism. The Harlem Renaissance was a social, political, and aesthetic movement as well as an artistic revolution, and is inseparable from the social context of Harlem in the 1920s which included high-brow literary saloons, rent parties, Jazz clubs, ball rooms, theaters, journals, and book stores.

In this seminar, we will talk about the literature of this movement in the context of its music and art, and with special emphasis on the women who shaped it. We will read Georgia Douglas Johnson s play Plumes (1927), Nella Larsen s Quicksand (1928), Zora Neale Hurston s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and some of her short stories, as well as poetry by Angelina Weld Grimké, Anne Spencer, and Gwendolyn Bennet, in relation to texts, songs, and art by other players of this movement (including W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Bessy Smith, Josephine Baker, Paul Robeson, Alaine Locke, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer). More information and readings will be available on the Virtual Campus soon.

This class will be taught in a blended format, combining asynchronous assignments with in-class-room meetings (on Zoom or, COVID permitting, in the lecture hall). The first meet-ing will take place on Zoom.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please purchase:

1. Nella Larsen s Quicksand (1928), ideally the Norton critical edition with footnotes, ed. by Carla Kaplan
2. Zora Neale Hurston s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

You should get and start reading both novels immediately. The overall reading load in this seminar is heavy, so to get a head start, read the novels during the semester break.

Further readings will be made available via the VC.

Home

Dozent/in:

Eva-Sabine Zehelein

Angaben:

Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, Raum n.V.
Class starts in the second week of term!

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including a specialization level seminar (Hauptseminar) for literary studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• LA GY (Seminar 8 ECTS)
• MA English and American Studies (Seminar 4, 5, 6, or 8 ECTS)
• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (Seminar 8 ECTS) (and equivalents in other subjects)
• Erasmus and other visiting students (Seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)

>> Open for Consolidation Module literary studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the advanced level (Aufbaumodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Consolidation module: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/)

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course (de)enrollment: September 1st – November 1st, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: January 1st – February 1st, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.

Inhalt:

What exactly is a hometown? Why is small town life either desired or despised? Why do people call places “home” which are not their places of birth or even places where their families live? How – if at all – have definitions of “home” changed over time? What is the relevance of “home” for American politics? What role does real estate play? How strong is nostalgia in the projection of “home”?

The seminar will attempt to answer these and related questions by looking closely at a broad variety of North American texts (novels, short stories, paintings, photographs, film).

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please buy and read: Toni Morrison, Home (2012); Dionne Brand, What We All Long For (2005); Gabrielle Zevin, The Hole We’re In (2010), Alison Bechdel, Fun Home (2006).

S: From Poetry to Song Lyrics: Analysing and Teaching Verse

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Theresa Summer, Lorena Bickert, Susan Brähler, Pascal Fischer, Manfred Krug, Mareike Spychala, Lina Strempel

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Kultur und Bildung, Please note: Students will also be asked to participate in some additional sessions (e.g. lectures).

Termine:

Mi, 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/00.04
ab 3.11.2021

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Information für Studierende der Fachdidaktik Englisch:

1. Modules: (ECTS: 4)
Lehramt GS, MS, RS, GY: Vertiefungsmodul
Lehramt RS: Zusatzmodul
BEd Berufliche Bildung: Vertiefungsmodul
MEd Berufliche Bildung: Zusatzmodul
Bachelor BWL/Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Aufbaumodul-Bachelor
Master Wirtschaftspädagogik/Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Aufbaumodul-Master
Master Wirtschaftspädagogik/Doppelwahlpflichtfach Englisch: Vertiefungsmodul

2. Teilnahmevoraussetzungen:
abgeschlossenes englischdidaktisches Basismodul

3. Anmeldung:
über FlexNow
vom 27.09.2021, 12:00 Uhr bis 15.10.2021, 11:59 Uhr

4. Leistungsnachweis:
schriftliche Hausarbeit

Further information: Students will also be asked to participate in a symposium (Friday, 04/02/2022 - Saturday, 05/02/2022).

Information for students of English Linguistics:

1. Modules:
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

2. Registration and Deregistration:
Registration via FlexNow from 27 September 2021, 10:00h, to 21 October 2021, 23:59h.
Deregistration via FlexNow from 27 September 2021, 10:00h, to 30 October 2021, 23:59h.

3. Requirements for successful completion of the course:
8 ECTS: regular active participation in class + oral presentation + seminar paper of 4500-6000 words

4. Combination with "Methods and Theories in Linguistics":
In the early weeks of term, all students are expected to take part in a special introduction to research methods entitled "Methods and Theories in Linguistics": https://univis.uni-bamberg.de/form?dsc=anew/lecture_view&lvs=guk/angl/engls/method&anonymous=1&founds=guk/angl/engls/method&sem=2021w&codeset=utf8 (unless they have already participated in this course in an earlier semester). Thus, these participants are required to reserve the following times and dates: Friday, 29 October 2021, 8-10 am, Thursday, 11 November 2021, 8-10 am, and Friday, 12 November 2021, 8-11 am. To enable pre-planning, please register for the course in FlexNow and in the Virtual Campus course by 27 October at the latest: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/enrol/index.php?id=49429

Information for students of American Studies:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:
Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar 6 ECTS)

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
1. completion of the basic module (Basismodul)
2. active participation (individual tasks and group work)
3. term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)

3. FlexNow-Registration:
1. Course (de)enrollment: 01.09.2021 - 01.11.2021
2. ECTS (de)registration: 01.01.2022 - 01.02.2022

Information for students of English Literature:

1. Modules:
Lehramt GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

2. FlexNow - Registration:
Class Registration: 06.09.2021 bis 31.10.2021
Exam Registration: 10.01.2022 bis 06.02.2022
Term Paper Deadline: 27.03.2022

Information for students of English and American Cultural Studies:

1. Modules:
Vertiefungsmodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft Lehramt GY (8 ECTS)
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft Lehramt GY (5 ECTS)
Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft WIPÄD (6 ECTS)

2. Registration:
October 4 until October 22, 2021
via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft"

Inhalt:

Lyrical texts such as poems and songs are particularly suitable for illustrating the characteristics of literariness to students: different levels of communication, stylistic devices and aesthetic effects are distinct in this genre with its tendency towards condensation and structural rigour. At the same time, poems and songs can offer readers and listeners an engaging insight into a great variety of social, cultural, and environmental issues. For English language education, lyrical texts have several benefits and, primarily due to their brevity and density of subject matter, they provide opportunities for flexible use and the development of various competences as well as critical literacy. In this interdisciplinary seminar, we will explore lyrical texts ranging from traditional poems to popular songs from different academic perspectives. These include literary-cultural, linguistic, and educational as well as methodological perspectives to identify how verse can be analysed and integrated into English language education. In opening up the canon of lyrical texts and including popular and learner-centred texts such as rhymes, tongue twisters, and pop songs, English language education can encourage learners to discover specific features of lyrical texts, identify layers of meaning, and explore various transcultural perspectives as well as issues of social (in)justice relevant in our society today.